My dear friends....I will put it in plain and simple American English.....To Hell with the right and left.....Look at the person, and what he/she has to say. If you agree, you've found a like soul. If you disagree, you are geared for a good debate.

So far, Numbus is the only candiate that I've not heard use the typical retoric that is always flying around during election queries. He's forthright, well spoken, and has a sense of humor.

Paul Mick wrote:Libertarians are conservative (politically right) on social issues but liberal (political left) on social issues. We pick the best of both worlds, and pretty much just want the government to leave us alone.

Paul, I've always argued that libertarians are just conservatives who want to smoke pot and look at porn.

Hey, more seriously, have you ever taken the Political Compass test? It's an intriguing concept that expands the too-simple left-right, blue-red, liberal-conservative dichotomy into an X-Y axis, with liberal and conservative on the horizontal axis, authoritarian and libertarian on the vertical axis.

The test is relatively simplistic - and somewhat British-accented - but it's still fascinating, and it very much holds that it's possible to be a liberal libertarian. In fact, I qualify as one, pretty far out on both axes:

Paul Mick wrote:Libertarians are conservative (politically right) on social issues but liberal (political left) on social issues. We pick the best of both worlds, and pretty much just want the government to leave us alone.

Paul, I've always argued that libertarians are just conservatives who want to smoke pot and look at porn.

Wow...my whole political philosophy summed up in one concise statement.

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